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Asynchronous parallel optimization algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning problems have drawn significant attention from academia to industry recently. This paper proposes a novel algorithm, decoupled asynchronous proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Yitan Li , Linli Xu , Xiaowei Zhong , Qing Ling

First-order methods based on the PDHG algorithm have recently emerged as a viable option for efficiently solving large-scale linear programming problems. One highly desirable property of these methods is that they can make effective use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Edward Rothberg

In this paper, first we give a sequential linear-time algorithm for the longest path problem in meshes. This algorithm can be considered as an improvement of [13]. Then based on this sequential algorithm, we present a constant-time parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi , Alireza Bagheri

Optimal multiple sequence alignment by dynamic programming, like many highly dimensional scientific computing problems, has failed to benefit from the improvements in computing performance brought about by multi-processor systems, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Manal Helal , Hossam El-Gindy , Lenore Mullin , Bruno Gaeta

Lazy search algorithms have been developed to efficiently solve planning problems in domains where the computational effort is dominated by the cost of edge evaluation. The existing algorithms operate by intelligently balancing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Shohin Mukherjee , Sandip Aine , Maxim Likhachev

Stochastic Gradient Descent is used for large datasets to train models to reduce the training time. On top of that data parallelism is widely used as a method to efficiently train neural networks using multiple worker nodes in parallel.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aakash Sudhirbhai Vora , Dhrumil Chetankumar Joshi , Aksh Kantibhai Patel

Parallel thinking has emerged as a promising paradigm for reasoning, yet it imposes significant computational burdens. Existing efficiency methods primarily rely on local, per-trajectory signals and lack principled mechanisms to exploit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Tong Zheng , Chengsong Huang , Runpeng Dai , Yun He , Rui Liu , Xin Ni , Huiwen Bao , Kaishen Wang , Hongtu Zhu , Jiaxin Huang , Furong Huang , Heng Huang

The ability to leverage large-scale hardware parallelism has been one of the key enablers of the accelerated recent progress in machine learning. Consequently, there has been considerable effort invested into developing efficient parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vitaly Aksenov , Dan Alistarh , Janne H. Korhonen

Dijkstra's algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is notoriously hard to parallelize in $o(n)$ depth, $n$ being the number of vertices in the input graph, without increasing the required parallel work unreasonably.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael Kainer , Jesper Larsson Träff

All traditional methods of computing shortest paths depend upon edge-relaxation where the cost of reaching a vertex from a source vertex is possibly decreased if that edge is used. We introduce a method which maintains lower bounds as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Vijay K. Garg

Function calling is a fundamental capability of today's large language models, but sequential function calling posed efficiency problems. Recent studies have proposed to request function calls with parallelism support in order to alleviate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiaoxia Liu , Peng Di , Cong Li , Jun Sun , Jingyi Wang

As deep learning becomes more expensive, both in terms of time and compute, inefficiencies in machine learning (ML) training prevent practical usage of state-of-the-art models for most users. The newest model architectures are simply too…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Kabir Nagrecha

State-of-the-art machine learning frameworks support a wide variety of design features to enable a flexible machine learning programming interface and to ease the programmability burden on machine learning developers. Identifying and using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yu Emma Wang , Carole-Jean Wu , Xiaodong Wang , Kim Hazelwood , David Brooks

Dependency parsing is an important NLP task. A popular approach for dependency parsing is structured perceptron. Still, graph-based dependency parsing has the time complexity of $O(n^3)$, and it suffers from slow training. To deal with this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Xu Sun , Shuming Ma

Multi-threaded programs have traditionally fallen into one of two domains: cooperative and competitive. These two domains have traditionally remained mostly disjoint, with cooperative threading used for increasing throughput in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Stefan K. Muller , Umut A. Acar , Robert Harper

In this paper we examine the key elements determining the best performance of computing by increasing the frequency of a single chip and to get the minimum latency during execution of the programs to achieve best possible output. It is not…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Kamran Latif

An extremely common bottleneck encountered in statistical learning algorithms is inversion of huge covariance matrices, examples being in evaluating Gaussian likelihoods for a large number of data points. We propose general parallel…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-09 Anjishnu Banerjee , Joshua Vogelstein , David Dunson

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

In this two-part paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex smooth function subject to nonconvex smooth constraints. The algorithm solves a sequence of (separable) strongly convex problems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song

Parallelization of A* path planning is mostly limited by the number of possible motions, which is far less than the level of parallelism that modern processors support. In this paper, we go beyond the limitations of traditional parallelism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohammad Bakhshalipour , Mohamad Qadri , Dominic Guri